# What does 'continuity' mean in Sargent's 1916 manual (Ch. XLIV), and what are the main ways he says a script breaks it?

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1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLIV). 'Continuity' means the easy, orderly progress of the action, and as a noun it also names the written plot of action itself. He gives three aspects: the story moves steadily forward in chronological order; scenes are in proper time order with jumps made known by inference or statement; and the character stays continuous (dress and presence from scene to scene). The main break is 'visioning' back: every time leader, fact leader or vision costs attention. He allows it only when the gain outweighs the interruption. A second source of breaks is condensation in the cutting room. His river, steam-engine and train-boarding passages are analogies. This candidate defines the terms; rule-by-rule checks are in C3-B303-S108-05.

1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLIV). 'Continuity' means the easy, orderly progress of the action, and as a noun it also names the written plot of action itself. He gives three aspects: the story moves steadily forward in chronological order; scenes are in proper time order with jumps made known by inference or statement; and the character stays continuous (dress and presence from scene to scene). The main break is 'visioning' back: every time leader, fact leader or vision costs attention. He allows it only when the gain outweighs the interruption. A second source of breaks is condensation in the cutting room. His river, steam-engine and train-boarding passages are analogies. This candidate defines the terms; rule-by-rule checks are in C3-B303-S108-05.

Curator qualifications: Plot-of-action, premise vs plot, suspense-bearing factors, continuity (time, place and fact leaders) and establishing rules are verified as Sargent's text. In -08, steps 9-10 are correctly labelled worker proposals.

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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIII-XLV offsets per candidate"
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```

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 practice (Sargent, ch. XLIV). 'Continuity' means the easy, orderly progress of the action, and as a noun it also names the written plot of action itself. He gives three aspects: the story moves steadily forward in chronological order; scenes are in proper time order with jumps made known by inference or statement; and the character stays continuous (dress and presence from scene to scene). The main break is 'visioning' back: every time leader, fact leader or vision costs attention. He allows it only when the gain outweighs the interruption. A second source of breaks is condensation in the cutting room. His river, steam-engine and train-boarding passages are analogies. This candidate defines the terms; rule-by-rule checks are in C3-B303-S108-05. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLIII-XLV offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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